GLAM-WIKI 2013/Call for papers

To submit a talk, simply use the template below to specify the title of your talk, your name, how long it will be and a short blurb as to what it is about (or email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk). Whilst you are here comment on other people's suggestions as to whether you think it is a good idea. You will be contacted in the coming weeks if your talk is selected.

We are also happy to accept suggestions for panel discussions or for workshops.

If you have any questions, please post them on the talk page, and/or contact daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk

Deadline is 15 February 2013.

Template

Please use the template code below, adding to the top of the #Talk proposals section

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| Talk title  = 
| Username    = 
| Length      = 
| Description = 
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which gives an output of the following kind:

An interesting and informative title

• Presenter Name: Johnbod
• Talk Length: short
• Talk Description: vital

Talk proposals

Contemporary art and Wikimedia

• Presenter Name: Joris Pekel & Sandra Fauconnier
• Talk Length: 15-20 minutes
• Talk Description:In a digital world, more and more contemporary artists see the potential outreach of the Wikimedia community. Several artists have shown that openly licensing their work greatly helps reaching out to a wider audience. At the same time, there are fears and licensing issues that prevent more artists from doing this. The Open Knowledge Foundation's OpenGLAM initiative works together with Wikimedia NL to create a booklet for contemporary artists that explains all the implications of the different CC-licenses and what it means to open up. At the time of the conference, we will have had several interviews with both artists and members of GLAM institutions about working with open data. We will present our results and share the document with you.

Why and How Museums should be digitized by Wikimedians?

• Presenter Name: Rangilo Gujarati
• Talk Length: 30 minutes (20 minutes talk and 5-10 minutes questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: In a country like India where museums play a major role in preserving the rich cultural heritage, the museums are less digitized (in some cases not at all digitized) in public domain to be used freely. In some museums digitization does take place but it is never made public. This presentation would aim to discuss the need of digitizing and more specifically putting those images in public domain from the museums. Wikimedians understand the need of those images and Commons can act as a wonderful platform to put those restored images in public domain like in this case. The presentation also aims to discuss the scenario for in a country like India where the big organizations aren't much involved in restoration and digitization, why and how a small Wikimedia movement can create difference and make strong cultural partnership ties with institutions.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-001). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:33, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Art and the Limits of Peer-Creativity

• Presenter Name: Simon Lindgren and Ragnar Lundström, Media Places Research Programme, HUMLab, Umeå University.
• Talk Length: 20 minutes (15 mins talk, 5 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: We will give a presentation of research made into the case of the "Wikipedia Art" project (2009), its continued existence at wikipediaart.org and the related controversy. A short overview of Wikipedia Art will be followed by a summary of analyses made of how this phenomenon made the boundaries of grassroots and peer creativity visible.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-003). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:36, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Europeana and the Wikimedia movement

• Presenter Name: A shared presentation by John Andersson, User:John Andersson (WMSE) together with a speaker from Europeana.
• Talk Length: 30 minutes (20-25 mins talk, 5-10 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: A brief introduction to Europeana and what Europeana is working with, followed by an overview of Europeana's support and cooperation with the Wikimedia movement to date (from sponsoring Wiki Loves Monuments to the current cooperation between Europeana and both Wikimedia Sweden (with Europeana Awareness) and Wikimedia Netherlands (with batch uploads)).

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-004). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:36, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

The GLAMwiki toolset project - current status

• Presenter Name: A shared presentation by Dan Entous (Europeana), Valentine Charles (Europeana) and Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland).
• Talk Length: 40 minutes (30 mins talk, 5-10 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: A report on the state of development of the GLAMwiki Mediawiki-extension, the mapping of standard GLAM metadata standards to Wikimedia Commons templates and a preview of the report on GLAM-requirements for statistics from the Wikimedia projects.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-002). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:34, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Local museums and Wikimedia - an untapped goldmine?

• Presenter Name: Rock drum
• Talk Length: 20 min (10-15 mins talk, 5-10 mins questions/discussion)
• Talk Description: Using Wikimedia UK's partnership with Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry as a case study, I'll be talking about why collaborating with local, smaller cultural institutions is something that chapters (but particularly WMUK) aren't doing and why they should. I hope to round off the session with questions and a round table discussion on the topic. [I'm not available on the Friday.]

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-005). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:43, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

QRpedia latest

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: A brief overview of QRpedia, and a summary of recent changes, developments and new/ planned deployments.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-007). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:56, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Overcoming resistance

• Presenter Name: Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Common reasons for not working with Wikipedia/Wikimedia given by GLAMs; and how to counter them.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-008). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:57, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Collaborating with a whole network of Public Libraries.

• Presenter Name: Carme Fenoll, introduced by User:Kippelboy
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Wikipedia is the entrance door to knowledge in digital world, as libraries are in "real" world. So it makes sense to do things together. Following this principle, Amical has reached an agreement with the Cultural Department of the Government of Catalonia, to promote Wikipedia among the Network of Catalan Public Libraries. We are establishing lines of collaboration with the glamwiki community, making it bigger, deeper and incorporating new content and users. 150 professional public librarians have already received Wiki training, in order to subsequently invite library users to join wiki projects. Also 1500 copies of the Welcome to Wikipedia manual have been printed and spread among the Libraries network. Session will be presented by Carme Fenoll, Catalonia's Libaries Network Director & Àlex Hinojo, Amical GLAM-WIKI coordinator.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-009). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

State of GLAM in Catalonia

• Presenter Name: User:Kippelboy (Àlex Hinojo)
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: GLAMwiki is one of the most successful tracks in Catalan Wikipedia. In this presentation I will show how all-size institutions can get into GLAMwiki projects, showing several succesful projects, done without many resources but with the commitment of both communities: Wikipedians and GLAM professionals. I want to explain how non-English Wikipedias can enlarge their audiences and their editor's communities using existing cultural communities (i.e.:Friends of the museums, universities, museum-retired professionals...)

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-010). Andrew Gray (talk) 11:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Working together from shared ideals: Wikimedia NL and Teylers Museum

• Presenter Name: Geert-Jan Janse & Sandra Fauconnier
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands was founded in 1778 as a centre for contemporary art and science. In line with the ideals of the Enlightenment the founders aimed to collect and share all knowledge available to mankind. The first purchase for the new museum was significant: the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert. In 2001, Wikipedia was founded “to provide free access to the sum of human knowledge”. Based on the shared values and goals of both organisations, the Dutch chapter of Wikimedia and Teyler Museum have organised a writing challenge from January till June 2012 to expand the coverage on various topics related to Teylers Museum and its rich collections. Curators and Wikipedians have successfully worked together, resulting in over 300 new articles in more then 13 languages, including Esperanto,Catalan and Volapük. Why did this project take place, how was it organised, what were our experiences, what are the lessons learned and how do we hope to continue our fruitful collaboration? Geert-Jan Janse, project manager digitisation of Teylers Museum, and Sandra Fauconnier, board member for cultural projects at Wikimedia NL, will together present different aspects of this project from the point of view of both the museum and Wikimedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Teylers

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-011). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Science GLAM

A drawer in the Australian National Insect Collection, with Buforania grasshoppers on display.

• Presenter Name: Daniel Mietchen
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description: Science-related activities have so far taken a back seat within the GLAM:Wiki framework, but initial contacts with a number of science and natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, herbaria and similar institutions are encouraging. Building on a similar talk at Wikimania, this session is devoted to reporting on what has happened so far as much as to seeding a strategy for things to come.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-012). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

A quarter of a Million edits: A new kind of Wikipedian in Residence

• Presenter Name: Maximilian Klein
• Talk Length: 20
• Talk Description: As much as you think Wikipedia has a lot of information, there is an order of magnitude more bibliographic data. Part of this database can be usefully linked to Wikipedia - and Wikidata - in a meaningful way. This the story of, and lessons learned from, Max Klein's attempt to link Authority Control data with Wikipedia as part of his Residency with OCLC. A case is made that Library data is of special importance to Wikipedia, and in the future, Wikidata. And a vision for a new kind of Wikipedian in Residence paradigm considering larger-scale long-term projects with focus on integrating data rather editing content.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-013). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:01, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

African content on Wikipedia

• Presenter Name: Iolanda Pensa
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Many GLAMs around the world have a rich documentation related to Africa; providing this content on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects can foster its visibility and access, and it can contribute to the involvement of new national and international audiences in sharing their knowledge. The experience of the projects WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge, and over 30,000 African contributions to Wikipedia reached in 2012 with the involvement of over 100 institutions.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-014). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

This Means War: Wikipedia and The National Archives

• Presenter Name: Jo Pugh
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: Central government meets the open content revolution. Have the results been pretty? What have we achieved so far and what should be the aims for the future? [I'm not available on the 15th, unfortunately]

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-015). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:02, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Being Bold: the next Wiki-Town?

• Presenter Name: Roger Bamkin, John Cummings, Tyson Lee Holmes et al (TBA)
• Talk Length: 20 minutes
• Talk Description: So there was a project called Monmouthpedia and it has been quite successful. Its the first time that Wiki has partnered with a public body. By the time the paper is presented WMUK will have announced at least one more town and Gibraltarpedia will be in full swing. This new project aspires to be the first wiki-city - at the very least. It aims to not only be cross-cultural, multi-national and multi-lingual but also transcontinental. How does Wikimedia square up to a government? What are the barriers? How do you plan innovation? How do you make it work?

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-016). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Curating the Digital Commons: GLAMWiki and the Public Domain Review

• Presenter Name: Sam Leon
• Talk Length:15 minutes
• Talk Description: In the past year the Open GLAM initiative, coordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation, has been building communities, tools and resources for working with open cultural data and helping more cultural institutions to actively embrace openness. By far and away most successful Open GLAM project has been the Public Domain Review an online journal for curated collections of curiosities from the digital public domain. Much of the material on the Public Domain Review is taken from Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons. In collaboration with GLAMWiki want to investigate how to encourage greater participation in this process of curating the digital commons, teaching people how to use existing portals into the public domain as means to enrich it and establish the infrastructure and standards that will allow a curatorial layer to flourish.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-017). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Wiki Photographer / Wikipedia Photography Club

• Presenter Name: Nasir Khan Saikat
• Talk Length: 25min
• Talk Description: We can encourage the group of people who loves to take photographs. This will help us to continue the GLAM activities all the year round and those places(countries) where the existing wiki community is not that big enough. I did a little homework on this topics and got some point which will be helpful

1. In every university (in my country) there is a photography club/community
2. in every 2weeks they arrange photowalks
3. a large number of people share good quality photographs in Flickr, Facebook, Google plus and some other social sites
4. most of then are interested to join contest
5. they love to show their best photos with others

there are other few findings. Based on these i think we can encourage those group of people to contribute to Wikipedia. Wikimedia commons has its own structure to select the featured and quality images. We can use this to boost the interests of the participants. At the same time we can start to use the term Wiki Photographer for those wikipedians whose contributed images has been used at least 10 articles of the wikipedia. I have other few plans to extend the activities and involvements.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-018). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

How can Wikimedia simultaneously partner with every GLAM organisation in the country?

• Presenter Name: Mike Peel (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
• Talk Length: 60 min
• Talk Description: WMUK has thus far mostly been partnering with individual organisations for specific one-off or recurring events. However, there are over 2,500 museums in the UK - and many more archives, libraries and galleries. In order to achieve the goal of sharing the sum of all human knowledge, the Wikimedia projects need to strive to work with all of these organisations simultaneously. This panel discussion aims to address the question of how this can be done - including both events that involve a large number of partner organisations, and how to develop Wikimedia UK so that it could coordinate a thousand events a year (or how to embed Wikimedia in a thousand events a year). The panel will consist of both GLAM and Wikimedia representatives to discuss this issue.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-019). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:06, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Should GLAM organisations release all of their content under a free license?

• Presenter Name: Mike Peel (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
• Talk Length: 60 min
• Talk Description: A panel to debate the question of releasing archives under free licenses. Is this good or bad for the archive/museum? This could be done as a 'For' vs 'Against' panel, similar to how Liam Wyatt organised a discussion about fair use at Wikimania 2012. The panel will consist of both GLAM and Wikimedia representatives to debate this issue.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-020). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:06, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

The impact of Museums and Libraries outreach Education Programme in Botswana

• Presenter Name: Oarabile Mudongo (talk) 22:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
• Talk Length: 20 min
• Talk Description:Recognising the need to reach audiences beyond the Gaborone city (Botswana) about the existence of Museums and Libraries, a group of volunteers from Botswana is planning to collaborate with the Education Division of the Botswana National Museum to developed several outreach programs and services for primary schools around the country and encourage students to edit and write educational articles on Wikipedia.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-021). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:07, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikistreet

• Presenter Name: Kiril Simeonovski
• Talk Length: 30 min
• Talk Description: This is a presentation about a proposed project to list all the streets in a city, digitise the maps with their location and introduce them to the Wikimedia projects, create and expand content about each street and its namesake, take photographs from the streets and the important objects located there, and place QR codes where it's possible. The creation of the project was motivated by WLM and Monmouthpedia, but it, however, includes activities that are not part of the latter two.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-022). Andrew Gray (talk) 13:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Case study: WikiArchaeology on the Macedonian Wikipedia

• Presenter Name: Kiril Simeonovski
• Talk Length: 30 min
• Talk Description: This is a presentation about a project with ongoing activities on the Macedonian Wikipedia. Several years ago the Macedonian Wikipedia Community managed to get access and free a database with information about archaeological sites in Macedonia. From there on the community members from the Macedonian Wikipedia have been working hard on creating articles about the sites with the information available in order to create the first digitised content of this type in Macedonian. The activities also include mapping all the sites with their exact coordinates and introducing graphical symbols to designate the type of the site and the period of its existence.

Comments

• Proposal received (GW-13-023). Andrew Gray (talk) 13:28, 17 January 2013 (UTC)